Disney

Football
Argentina

Argentinian club football will return to free-to-air television for the first time since June 2017 after public-service broadcaster TV Pública agreed a sublicensing deal with media group Disney.
Football
Argentina

Media giant Disney has agreed to pay a sizeable one-off fee to secure a three-season extension to its domestic broadcast rights to Argentina’s Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF), following a legal spat that had threatened to end its relationship with the league.
Cricket
United Kingdom

Rights to England’s forthcoming cricket tour to India will be retained in the UK by the Walt Disney Company to exploit itself, it has been reported.
Football
Mexico

The Walt Disney Company is being sued by Mexican Liga MX club Santos Laguna over allegations of contractual violation as a by-product of Disney’s 21st Century Fox acquisition in 2019.
Football
Global

Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
Multi-sport
Mexico

The Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has set a March 2021 deadline for Disney’s long-anticipated divestment of its Fox Sports business in the country.
Motorsport
Brazil

Commercial free-to-air broadcaster SBT and the Disney media group are set to put in a combined bid for rights to Formula One from 2021 in Brazil, following the recent breakdown of the Rio Motorsports proposal
Multi-sport
Argentina

The Disney media group’s latest attempts to merge international arms of pay-television broadcasters ESPN and Fox Sports has failed after Argentina’s competition authority blocked its proposal.
Multi-sport
Mexico

Media group Disney has been handed another two-month extension to sell the Mexican arm of Fox Sports by Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT).
Football
Brazil

LaLiga, the governing body of Spain’s highest two domestic football divisions, has agreed a long-term rights renewal with the Disney Group in Brazil.
Ice Hockey
USA

The National Hockey League and digital partner Disney Streaming Services have struck a partnership with Twitter to deliver live video look-ins of the upcoming league playoffs to the social media platform
Multi-sport
USA

FuboTV has reached a multiyear distribution deal with Disney Media Networks that will place a wide range of channels on the US sports-focused streaming service
Multi-sport
Brazil

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Brasil is said to have amassed a R$120m ($22.3m/€20m) deficit between 2016 and 2019.
Multi-sport
Brazil

The proposed merger of the Brazilian arms of international sports broadcasters Fox Sports and ESPN has been given provisional approval by the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (Cade), the competition…
Multi-sport
Mexico

Mexico’s telecoms regulator, the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), has handed Disney and 21st Century Fox a three-month extension to divest the Fox Sports channels in Mexico.
Multi-sport
USA

ESPN parent company Disney said it is seeing increased user consumption and advertiser interest in its entertainment properties while the US sports industry remains at a standstill due to the ongoing Covid-19…
Multi-sport
India

Disney is launching its Disney Plus OTT service in India on March 29, to coincide with the start of the Indian Premier League cricket season
Multi-sport
Asia

The chief sports media-rights buyer for the Asian Fox Sports pay-television channels, Craig Dobbs, in December became the latest in a series of senior departures from the business